NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Grosseteste, Natural Philosophy, Class Conflict
26 May 2016
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Introduction- why would it be a mistake to call the medieval period the dark ages? . Although both natural philosophy and the technical arts were in relative decline in europe during the early medieval period, the same was not true in other parts of the world. Example; china was undergoing its golden age of technological development at this time. Natural philosophy was flourishing in the arab world. Medicines, math, astronomy, astrology, alchemy and logic. Early rulers in the islamic world were open to knowledge from foreign cultures and this included. Islamic scholars were mere translators, imitators of greeks who are given credit only for translating works into arabic. In later medieval period, both natural philosophy and the technical arts gained importance in. Part of the reason for this was the merging of both disciplines to christianity: natural philosophy and christianity. Rise occurred due to many cases of bans of work of natural philosophers like plato and aristotle.
